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Designing a Multimodal Robot Pet for Older Adults by Young Adults
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Nora Almania ,
Muneeb Ahmad ,
Deepak Sahoo
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pages: 1 - 9
Swansea University Authors:
Sarah Alhouli , Nora Almania , Muneeb Ahmad , Deepak Sahoo
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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3706599.3720083
Abstract
Social robots that promote mental well-being have been developed for healthy aging. Negative attitudes of people, both old and young, towards such robots currently affect their acceptance. Involving young adult relatives in the design of a social robot with sound/voice responses to multimodal touch,...
| Published in: | CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| ISBN: | 9798400713958 |
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New York, NY, USA
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69126 |
| Abstract: |
Social robots that promote mental well-being have been developed for healthy aging. Negative attitudes of people, both old and young, towards such robots currently affect their acceptance. Involving young adult relatives in the design of a social robot with sound/voice responses to multimodal touch, gesture, emotion and speech inputs that can be given as a gift to an elderly family member to improve the chances of its acceptance has not been studied. To this end, we conducted two user interaction design studies with young adults, the Identification (n = 20) and Matching (n = 21) studies and measured predicted changes in attitudes using the Negative Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (NARS) and the General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS) questionnaires. Our results show that negative attitudes evolve positively following the relatives--designed approach, which could promote a positive elderly--robot interaction and increasing social robot acceptance. |
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| Keywords: |
Social Robots, Older Adults, Young Adults, Negative Attitudes Towards Robots, Robot Acceptance, Relatives–Designed Robot, Elderly–Robot Interaction |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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This work was supported in part by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant EP/W025396/1, the Swansea University Morgan Advanced Studies Institute (MASI) and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). |
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